Simulation for the 2024 national assessment will begin on Monday, February 5, when 8th graders will take the Romanian language test. For the first time, simulation papers, as well as the National Assessment 2024 and Baccalaureate 2024 exams, will be digitally corrected.

On Friday, the Ministry of Education announced that the simulation of the 2024 ZNO for Class 8 will begin on Monday, and the results will be announced on February 23.

2024 National Assessment Simulation Calendar

• 02/05/2024 – Romanian language and literature, written test
• 02/06/2024 – mathematics, written test
• 02/07/2024 – Native language and literature, written test
• February 23, 2024, notification of results

Simulation National Assessment 2024 – useful information

• Trials begin at 9:00 a.m.
• Students can access the classrooms until 8:30.
• Two hours are allocated for working out the written work from the moment the topics are distributed to each student.
• Topics are distributed in the form of a booklet printed on both sides. Students may request additional pages if needed.

Importantly:

• The results obtained during the simulation are analyzed in each educational unit through individual discussions with students, debates at the class level, meetings with parents, as well as at the level of the pedagogical council, “in order to take measures to improve the performance of the school in view of this. exams this summer.”
• The results obtained during the simulation are not included in the catalog. However, in exceptional cases, when we want to record grades in the catalog, this can be done on the basis of a written request of interested persons, the Ministry of Education notes.

Simulation National Assessment 2024 – papers will be corrected digitally for the first time

For the first time, the test papers of ZNO 2024 will be corrected digitally.

Education Minister Ligia Deka announced on Monday that all national exams this year, as well as simulation papers, will be marked digitally, she confirmed that more than 90% of teachers who have already tried the option said it was more effective.

She also claimed that digital proofreading eliminates proofreading errors.

• “Fatigue (sic!) errors are eliminated, this chore of passing points on a scale is eliminated because the platform, when you grade different subjects, automatically adds them, and there is also a much easier possibility to randomly submit a paper.
• We will generalize this digitized correction to all national exams, including this year’s simulation,” said Ligia Deka.

Therefore, during the simulation for the 2024 national assessment, all papers will be scanned in the classroom and corrected on the digitized platform.

Teaching assistants scan the work in the presence of students and check it. What if it doesn’t scan properly or the text is too small? “The evaluator teacher has a button, it’s called an unread paper, the paper is re-scanned and transmitted in real time,” State Secretary of the Ministry of Education Sorin Ion said on TVR Info, according to edupedu.ro.

National assessment calendar 2024

• June 11-14 – registration for external examinations;
• 25.06.2024 – final examination on Romanian language and literature;
• 27.06.2024 – external examination in mathematics;
• 28.06.2024 – ZNO in Native language and literature;
• July 3, 2024 – display of initial results, pending appeals;
• July 3 (4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.) and July 4 (8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.) – submission of applications;
• July 4 – 9 – consideration of appeals;
• July 9 – display of the final results of the 2024 ZNO.